Center on Global Health Architecture

What’s New

Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting will hold an international conference “Accelerating Innovation and Access in Global Health Technologies” with Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Global Health Innovative Technology Fund, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, and Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation (registration is needed from the event page).

About us

Who we are

Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting (MURC) is a comprehensive think tank/consulting arm of the
Mitsubishi UFJ
Financial Group (the MUFG Group, a universal banking group that represents Japan) and based in the
three major
cities in Japan.

The Center on Global Health Architecture was established within the MURC to address pressing global
health
issues based on a public-private partnership approach.

What we think

Our aim is to contribute to solving the global health issues through dialogue and co-creation. Since we
believe
in the importance of tackling the issues of global health with a comprehensive approach, our target
issues are
broad, including nutrition, NCDs (non-communicable diseases), health systems, and UHC (universal health
coverage).

At this moment, we focus on infectious diseases, with a value “we should get along/coexist with
infectious
diseases by 2030″. We investigate how we should invest in R&D for innovative and effective products
and
deliver them to the market, how we could improve the health system and health-related infrastructure,
and how
we could develop global health workforce through capacity building.

In addition to the above-mentioned issues, we also explore use of new technologies – such as artificial
intelligence, machine learning, blockchain and drones – in the field of public health, and examine how
they
would affect the future of global health.

Activities

In 2016, we launched an action-oriented public-private partnerships (PPP) consortium “Access to Health”
that
focuses on “Global Health”. In this consortium, members exchange information and knowledge, and discuss
ways to
solve public health issues in today’s global society. Today we have more than 100 members from a wide
variety
of entities: United Nations agencies/partnerships, Japanese governmental agencies, international NGOs,
private
companies, academia, funding agencies, etc.

Since 2016, we have developed our activities under the following four pillars: “closed seminars,”
“independent
research,” “action-oriented working group,”and “networking with global partners”. Based upon synergy
among
these four types of activities, we aim to establish a “Global Health Platform” in Japan in partnership
with the
global society.

Ministry of Environment and Food of Denmark, World Food Summit – Better Food for
More
People 2018,
30-31 August 2018 @ Copenhagen, Denmark

The 45th Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC)
Annual
Conference
2018, 13-15 June 2018 @ Minneapolis, USA

Stop TB Partnership/ World Economic Forum, Barriers in Country Adoption and Access
to New,
Quality
Assured TB Innovations: The Role of Multi-Sectoral Collaboration in Bridging the Gap, 20 May 2018 @
Geneva, Switzerland

World Benchmarking Alliance, A multi-stakeholder consultation meeting on the World
Benchmarking
Alliance, 20 April 2018 @ Washington DC, USA

Joint Inspection Unit of the UN system/ World Association for Sustainable
Development,
International
Conference on “Public – private partnership for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable
Development”, 10-12 April 2018 @ Geneva, Switzerland